Google is to be recalled before MPs to clarify its UK tax position after
evidence emerged which appeared inconsistent with the internet giant’s
previous testimony.

Matt Brittin, Google’s vice-president for northern and central Europe, told
members of the Public Accounts Committee last year that “nobody” in Britain
sold Google products to UK customers. Instead, Mr Brittin said, all sales
were made out of Dublin.

The effect of the Dublin arrangement is to lower legally Google’s corporation
tax bill by billions of pounds because it allows the company to state it
does not have a British presence.